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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sam Crow" data-source="post: 8355394" data-attributes="member: 7031709">Attacking – Offensive Posture Description When you are ready and able to attack, you may enter offensive posture, and the very act of attacking puts you in offensive posture. As with defensive posture, offensive posture has its own options and limitations. They are: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Except for the counterattack, attacking is only possible from an offensive posture. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Momentum can only be built in offensive posture. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You cannot recover ardor or avoidance in offensive posture. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You cannot parry in offensive posture. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you are successfully parried and then counterattacked, you remain in offensive posture during the counterattack. Therefore, you can’t parry a counterattack (because you’re still in offensive posture during the counterattack and you can’t parry in offensive posture). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can block with a shield in offensive posture. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can evade in offensive posture. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Simply by electing to stop attacking, you can switch to defensive posture from offensive posture at anytime except during the instant you are counterattacked. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Being attacked takes you out of offensive posture and into defensive posture. In order to go on the offensive again, you'll need to successfully defend an attack or wait for your attacker to disengage. </li> </ul> Example A Al and Bob are ready to fight. Al decides to engage Bob, who enters defensive posture. The pair exchange engagement for parry and Al wins, gaining momentum. Al can press the attack or decide he wants to back off and drop into defensive posture, forfeiting his momentum and the attack to Bob. Example B Al engages Bob and is successfully parried. Bob counterattacks. Al can only attempt to block (if he has a shield) or evade the counterattack because, at the moment he is counterattacked, he’s still in offensive posture. After the counterattack, Al is in defensive posture and Bob is in offensive posture. Example C Al has been pressing the attack for a while now and fatigue is beginning to catch up with him. To try and catch his breath, he drops into a defensive stance, forfeiting his momentum and the attack to Bob. Notes You can think of offensive posture as dramatically or as subtly as you like. It simply represents the changes – sometimes great, sometimes small – in your fighting stance when you’re on the hunt. Fighters in offensive posture are trying to “control the fight." In watching a fight (e.g. MMA/boxing/HEMA), the fighter who is advancing is generally the one in offensive posture (think Conor MacGregor). As we’ll see though, you can fight and win using defensive posture as your basic strategy (think Floyd Mayweather). Depending on the abilities of your fighter and the weapons he's using, you may be more or less comfortable on offense than defense by default.NextProceed to <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/help-wanted-fans-of-combat-mechanics.681604/post-8355717" target="_blank">Attacking - Engagements</a> or return to the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/help-wanted-fans-of-combat-mechanics.681604/post-8352645" target="_blank">Table of Contents</a>.</blockquote>

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